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Iowa Code § 99.1 (2026)

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As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, “book”, “list”, “record”, or “schedule” kept by a county auditor, assessor, treasurer, recorder, sheriff, or other county officer means the county system as defined in section 445.1. 2000 Acts, ch 1148, §1

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Cited in 10 cases, 1973–1983 · leading case: State Ex Rel. Clemens v. Toneca, Inc., 265 N.W.2d 909 (Iowa 1978).
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State Ex Rel. Clemens v. Toneca, Inc., 265 N.W.2d 909 (Iowa 1978). · cites it 22× “§ 99.1, The Code, 1975, (now amended) which prohibited maintaining a place “used for the purpose of lewdness, assignation [or] prostitution * * 2.”
State Ex Rel. Chwirka v. Audino, 260 N.W.2d 279 (Iowa 1977). · cites it 18× “They appeal trial court’s grant of a permanent injunction enjoining defendants from permitting gambling on their premises upon a finding that a nuisance as defined by § 99.1, The Code, existed. We affirm. On September 3, 1975 the State of Iowa, on the relation of the Woodbury…”
State Ex Rel. Turner v. Drake, 242 N.W.2d 707 (Iowa 1976). · cites it 4× “Plaintiff asserts defendants should be enjoined under § 99.1, The Code, 1973. The trial court dismissed the action.”
State v. Whetstine, 315 N.W.2d 758 (Iowa 1982). · cites it 2× “In ToNeCa, we found that masturbation by hand was not a sex act under section 99.1, The Code 1975, a civil statute concerning prostitution.”
State Ex Rel. Faches v. N.D.D., Inc., 228 N.W.2d 191 (Iowa 1975). · cites it 6× “” Section 99.1, The Code, provides: “Whoever shall erect, establish, continue, maintain, use, own, or lease any building, erection, or place used for the purpose of lewdness, assignation, prostitution, or gambling, or pool selling as defined by section 726.”
State v. Wilt, 333 N.W.2d 457 (Iowa 1983). · cites it 2× “Audino , however, involved a petition for injunction against nuisance under Iowa Code section 99.1, which textually states its provisions do not apply to games conducted pursuant to chapter 99B.”
State v. Price, 237 N.W.2d 813 (Iowa 1976). “We later held the word to be vague as used in § 99.1, The Code. State ex rel. Faches v.”
MRM, INC. v. City of Davenport, 290 N.W.2d 338 (Iowa 1980). “§ 99.1, The Code (maintenance of building for purpose of prostitution is nuisance subject to injunction and abatement), which was held to be penal and subject to strict construction in State ex rel.”
State Ex Rel. Faches v. Wedelstedt, 250 N.W.2d 64 (Iowa 1977). · cites it 4× “Code § 99.1 says, in relevant part: “Whoever shall erect, establish, continue, maintain, use, own, or lease any building, erection, or place used for the purpose of lewdness, assignation, prostitution or * * * is guilty of a nuisance, and the building, erection, or place, or the…”
N.D.D. Inc. v. Faches, 367 F. Supp. 465 (N.D. Iowa 1973). “is guilty of a nuisance, and the building, erection, or place, or the ground itself, in or upon which such lewdness, assignation, prostitution, or gambling is conducted, permitted, or car *467 ried on, continued, or exists, and the furniture, fixtures, musical instruments, and…”
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